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House Bill 1213




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HB 1213

        By Representative Murman






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health care; amending s.

  3         240.5121, F.S.; allowing the Florida Cancer

  4         Control and Research Advisory Council either to

  5         purchase or to develop a written summary of

  6         cancer treatment alternatives for prostate

  7         cancer; providing an appropriation to the

  8         council for developing or purchasing and for

  9         distributing a pamphlet and for developing and

10         implementing an education program on prostate

11         cancer; providing an effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Paragraph (m) of subsection (4) of section

16  240.5121, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

17         240.5121  Cancer control and research.--

18         (4)  FLORIDA CANCER CONTROL AND RESEARCH ADVISORY

19  COUNCIL; CREATION; COMPOSITION.--

20         (m)  If funds are specifically appropriated by the

21  Legislature, the council shall develop or purchase a

22  standardized written summary, written in layperson's terms and

23  in language easily understood by the average adult patient,

24  informing actual and high-risk breast cancer patients and

25  prostate cancer patients of the medically viable treatment

26  alternatives available to them in the effective management of

27  breast cancer and prostate cancer; describing such treatment

28  alternatives; and explaining the relative advantages,

29  disadvantages, and risks associated therewith.  Such summary,

30  upon its completion, shall be printed in the form of a

31  pamphlet or booklet and made continuously available to

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HB 1213

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  1  physicians and surgeons in this state for their use in

  2  accordance with s. 458.324 and to osteopathic physicians in

  3  this state for their use in accordance with s. 459.0125.  The

  4  council shall periodically update the pamphlet to reflect

  5  current standards of medical practice in the treatment of

  6  breast cancer and prostate cancer.  The council shall develop

  7  and implement an educational program, including distribution

  8  of the pamphlet or booklet developed or purchased under this

  9  paragraph, to inform citizen groups, associations, and

10  voluntary organizations about early detection and treatment of

11  breast cancer and prostate cancer.

12         Section 2.  The sum of $50,000 is appropriated for

13  fiscal year 1997-1998 from the General Revenue Fund to the H.

14  Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the

15  University of South Florida to be used by the Cancer Control

16  and Research Advisory Council to produce or purchase and to

17  distribute a pamphlet that informs patients about treatment

18  alternatives for prostate cancer and to develop and implement

19  an educational program that includes the distribution of the

20  pamphlet, as required by section 250.5121, Florida Statutes.

21         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1997.

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24                          SENATE SUMMARY

25    Allows the Florida Cancer Control and Research Advisory
      Council either to purchase or to develop a written
26    summary of prostate-cancer treatment alternatives.
      Provides an appropriation to the council for developing
27    or purchasing and for distributing the
      prostate-cancer-treatment pamphlet and for developing and
28    implementing an education program concerning prostate
      cancer.
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